Spring Equinox 50k Race Report (Dropped from 50 Mile)
Kristy & me ready to head to Mississippi It was supposed to be my first 50 miler, but it definitely did not go my way from the start. Sometimes that's the way it goes. I normally try to not wait too long after a race to get my report done, but it just took this long to sort things out and think about how to put my thoughts into words. Although it didn't work out, it was a good event, an interesting journey, and a change to learn. I fully intend to take the lessons learned from this race and use them to continue moving forward, accomplish my first 50 miler, and beyond. This was the final piece of 8 months of consistent training, which is the first piece of the puzzle of where things went wrong for me. I started my training July 21, '14 when I started training for the Pensacola Marathon , then continued on from there to train for the Mississippi Blues/First Light Marathons double weekend . My original plan was to do the Blackwater 50k after that (which I did), th